Solve : NO COMMANDS WORK EXCEPT CLS?

1.	Solve : NO COMMANDS WORK EXCEPT CLS?
Answer» i have this late 1980s c.1988 IBM with MS DOS 4.0 and i haven' t turned it on in a long time (not since around 2003) and i am windering how to re-install the required software to run it. any ideas?Boot to your DOS 4 install DISKETTE, and follow the prompts. Also, if CLS works, then so should the other internal COMMANDS like: DIR COPY DEL CD TYPE MD With DIR, CD and COPY, you can get around your drive, look for files, run programs and copy files.go to sys32 and check if the files are there but before u do that go to file options and make it show hidden files and system files tell me if u can see any .exeQuote from: lordoftheplat on May 31, 2007, 03:48:00 AM go to sys32 and check if the files are there but before u do that go to file options and make it show hidden files and system files tell me if u can see any .exe Lordoftheplat: I don't think he is going to have system32 or any file menu under DOS 4.Quote from: GuruGary on May 31, 2007, 07:43:59 AM Lordoftheplat: I don't think he is going to have system32 or any file menu under DOS 4. lol I know (I can tell) that 1988 is like 10 years before most people using this forum were born, but take it from an oldster that MS-DOS version 4 was widely regarded as the crappy version that came between version 3.30 and version 5.00. Version 6.22 is the reference version still. Quote from: contrex on May 31, 2007, 01:55:04 PM I know (I can tell) that 1988 is like 10 years before most people using this forum were born, but take it from an oldster that MS-DOS version 4 was widely regarded as the crappy version that came between version 3.30 and version 5.00. Version 6.22 is the reference version still. Agreed. In fact I still have computers running the following versions of DOS: MS-DOS 3.31 MS-DOS 5.00 MS-DOS 6.00 MS-DOS 6.22 Notice how I skipped MS-DOS 4.x ... since it was pretty worthless.

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i have this late 1980s c.1988 IBM with MS DOS 4.0 and i haven' t turned it on in a long time (not since around 2003) and i am windering how to re-install the required software to run it. any ideas?Boot to your DOS 4 install DISKETTE, and follow the prompts.

Also, if CLS works, then so should the other internal COMMANDS like:
DIR
COPY
DEL
CD
TYPE
MD

With DIR, CD and COPY, you can get around your drive, look for files, run programs and copy files.go to sys32
and check if the files are there
but before u do that go to file options
and make it show hidden files and system files
tell me if u can see
any .exeQuote from: lordoftheplat on May 31, 2007, 03:48:00 AM

go to sys32 and check if the files are there but before u do that go to file options and make it show hidden files and system files tell me if u can see any .exe

Lordoftheplat: I don't think he is going to have system32 or any file menu under DOS 4.Quote from: GuruGary on May 31, 2007, 07:43:59 AM

Lordoftheplat: I don't think he is going to have system32 or any file menu under DOS 4.

lol
I know (I can tell) that 1988 is like 10 years before most people using this forum were born, but take it from an oldster that MS-DOS version 4 was widely regarded as the crappy version that came between version 3.30 and version 5.00. Version 6.22 is the reference version still.

Quote from: contrex on May 31, 2007, 01:55:04 PM

I know (I can tell) that 1988 is like 10 years before most people using this forum were born, but take it from an oldster that MS-DOS version 4 was widely regarded as the crappy version that came between version 3.30 and version 5.00. Version 6.22 is the reference version still.

Agreed. In fact I still have computers running the following versions of DOS:
MS-DOS 3.31
MS-DOS 5.00
MS-DOS 6.00
MS-DOS 6.22
Notice how I skipped MS-DOS 4.x ... since it was pretty worthless.

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